Note 1345 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)

Philosophoumena ed. Cruice v. 3 τετέλεσται δὲ ταῦτα (τὰ βακχικὰ τοῦ Ὀρφέως) ... πρὸ τῆς ... ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τελετῆς, ἐν Φλοιοῦντι τῆς Ἀττικῆς, πρὸ γὰρ τῶν Ἐλευσινίων μυστηρίων ἐστὶ [τὰ] ἐν τῇ Φλοιοῦντι τῆς λεγομένης Μεγάλης ὄργια. ἔστι δὲ παστὰς ἐν αὐτῇ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς παστάδος ἐγγέγραπται μέχρι σήμερον ἡ πάντων τῶν εἰρημένων λόγων ἰδέα. πολλὰ μὲν οὖν ἐστὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς παστάδος ἐκείνης ἐγγεγραμμένα· περὶ ὧν καὶ Πλούταρχος ποιεῖται λόγους ἐν ταῖς πρὸς Ἐμπεδοκλέα δέκα βίβλοις. Whether the παστάς is here bridal chamber or bridal bed it is impossible to decide; it may have been a sort of decorative baldacchino. That παστός meant sometimes bed, not chamber, is clear I think from the title παστοφόρος applied to Aphrodite.